"Twenty-six-year-old Jimmy Brennans life has taken a turn for the worse, and hes desperate to numb the pain. When his mother dies and his girlfriend betrays him, its the final straw; he leaves Australia, bound for Bali. But Jimmys demons chase him. Sickened by the filth and the rapacious tourists swarming the Indonesian holiday island, Jimmy escapes north up the archipelago, driven by a desire for solitude and possessed by a restless, self-destructive urge. When hes offered the opportunity to visit the forbidden island of North Sentinel, home of a forgotten tribe which has violently rejected outside contact for centuries, Jimmy takes it. He finds paradise, but its a discovery that will have deadly consequences"--Back cover.